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Word: ward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...work in a restaurant. Queues formed quickly. In two days, with her boy friend looking on admiringly, she had vaccinated 500 people. Suspicious cops finally hauled her into a police station, found that she had "vaccinated" everybody with water. Arraigned for "assault," she was packed off to a psychiatric ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Smallpox Scare | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...main gift has been the fundamentals of orderly government and security. Before World War I no one dared go out Bagdad's South Gate after dark for fear of bandits. Now it is relatively safe. Many Iraqis used to walk about with one hand on their heads, to ward off djinns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Hashimite Huddle | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...show around a plot. The completely uninteresting story, known only to diligent program-readers, ties the performers down, though the comedians get around the restriction, simply by doing what they feel like. Smacking of vaudeville, the comedy includes a couple of female impersonation acts that the Watch and Ward evidently hasn't seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...translated into English: The Woman Who was Poor (Sheed & Ward, 1939, $2.50); Letters to His Fiancée (Sheed & Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passionate Pilgrim | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Hammer (12 lb.)--Won by H. Reed; second, S. Ward; third, S. Felton (scratch). Distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Contests Of University Meet Are Run | 4/12/1947 | See Source »

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